John Bright Quotes

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

If you do not accept the yoke of the Church and the King of Spain, I will make war on you everywhere in every way that I can. The death and destruction will be your fault.